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The Space Shuttle
Columbia’s explosion
in 2003 killed all
seven crew members
people who conduct reconnaissance using space. add them together. They redacted a few parts of them;
Isn’t it? however, that was obvious, and we can hope they
Declassified documents released by US govern- might appear many years later: but, those missing
ment agencies like CIA, NRO are saying so. The truth parts are meaningful too: you can read between the
has an official seal. NASA had designed shuttles that lines. Moreover, what we have accessed are enough
carried US spy satellites to orbit. Declassified docu- to prove NASA’s Secret Relationships with US Defense
ments depict a disgraceful relationship between and Intelligence Agencies.
NASA and CIA, the US Department of Defense (DoD), It generated the first document (Source: CIA
and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). These Mandatory Declassification Review, MDR Request)
agencies took part in designing NASA’s Shuttles on 4th September 1958. CIA assistant director C.P.
throughout the 1970s. Cabell, General, USAF, wrote a letter to Dr. T. Keith
The number of declassified documents that depict Glennan, Director, National Aeronautics and Space
the top-secret plans is more than a hundred if you Administration (NASA). It reached Mr. Glennan on
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